Grounding Language in the World: Signs, Schemas, and Meaning
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These observations have motivated the implementation of a series of situated language processing systems in my lab. I will report on my ongoing attempt to develop a computational framework for language grounding that distills lessons learned from these implementations. Drawing from ideas in semiotics and constructivism, knowledge is represented in terms of signs which are causally connected to their referents, and actions which the agent can perform to verify, acquire, and use knowledge.
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